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Microsoft gives the big up yours to people trying to use Visual Studio 2008 for creating Reporting Server projects on SQL Server/Reporting Service 2005. This bit one of my developers in the ass today. I firmly believe that Microsoft’s heyday will be remembered from a end user perspective as Windows XP SP2, and from the [...]

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These stats on Google Reader’s keyboard shortcuts are pretty interesting but what would really be great is a way to reliably open up the original item in a new tab. The ‘v’ shortcut seems to act differently depending on the item and I can never quite figure out why this happens. Often times the original [...]

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Fogless shaving mirror got you down? It started fogging up again didn’t it? Bastard. A simple fix is to get a little bar soap on your hand and smear it on the mirror before each time you want to use it. Keeps the mirror fog free and you from buying any more “fogless” mirrors.

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When in a meeting about a subject they can’t be bothered with thinking about, one of our team member’s famous catch phrases is:
“..I’m just going to gloss over this so we can be efficient…”
It’s kind of hilarious because everyone can tell she means, “Hey asshole, I don’t care.” Very professional. It’s kind of not [...]

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I generally like Washington Mutual as a company. It seems like they genuinely give a shit about your piddly checking and savings account and since I moved to New York City five years ago, I’ve been using them for both my personal and business banking. Visiting their branches has always been pleasant, the employees [...]

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We recently received an archived web cast on a DVD from the company that produced and hosted it live for us. The content included various clips of media (Windows Media & Real Video) that played on the left as several slides (PNG files) were flipped on the right. Our intent was to take this production, [...]

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I noticed this Sunday while reading the New York Times online that when you are in the main text of an article, double-clicking anywhere on the body of the article causes a pop-up window to spawn. The pop-up contains a dictionary definition of the word that has been highlighted by your double-click action. This is [...]

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If you work in tech, and you glean humor from the peril of other people’s interactions with incompetence, you’ve probably seen http://thedailywtf.com/. Go on, take a look. It’s pretty good stuff. In my “pay the bills” job, I run into so many WTFs that it has become almost devoid of humor for me. Here’s one [...]

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